I had a photogenic day today. Riding bikes out in the park with Anthony, I taught him how to ride down steps. He was apprehensive, but I demonstrated, he tried it, and was successful.

Time flys... it seems that it was only just the other day that he got is first bike and learned to ride.

While we were there, we got a call from Fumie telling us to check in at the Heian Shrine for a fitting for Anthony to wear a hakama (traditional Japanese male formal ware) at a shichi-go-san children's-blessing festival event next week. We've always wanted [...]

I hung out near the bus stop waiting for Anthony to return home this afternoon, hoping to get a shot of him in a nicely-coordinated green shirt and orange sweatshirt. I concealed myself behind a sign to get a candid, bit it turns out he had the sweatshirt in his bag. Still, I really like the look on his face in this shot.

If he were older he'd be checking out the camera or its female user, but at this point he doesn't care about either, so his face is wearing a "just checking out the world" look.

It seems [...]

I'm not sure which is worse.... being sick for a week, or, after getting better, having to face the mountain of email and work that accumulated during that time. (And how is it that a month's worth of stuff can accumulate in just eight days???)

Here are some more photos from our trip to my folks' place in Ohio during the summer, following along after previous posts "Hosing Down a Dirty Boat", "Boat Ride for Anthony and Josh", and "Grace and Luke's Turn in the Boat". In this installment, Anthony and I went out in the boat with my sister, [...]

I've been down with an upper-respiratory infection all weekend, only today realizing that it's not just a cold, so only today I'm finally on some antibiotics. So just a light post today...

While fishing around my Lightroom library for the photo at the end of yesterday's post, I came across another photo taken from the same location (the Imadegawa bridge over the Kamo River) of the bridge itself. It has some simple modern "stone lantern" type things at intervals that I think are pretty, but the ugly city backgrounds make it impossible for me to do much with them photographically.

Not to become an all-Nils blog, but another post about our little scooter ride into Northern Kyoto that yielded the photogenic posts "A Visit to Rengeji Temple" and "The Hakuryuuen Gardens." We continued into the mountains north of Kyoto, past Kibune and Kurama, way north past civilization into the deep forest, up the mountain.

I had been on the particular road many times, but never on a scooter (and was impressed with how it handled the steep road with 450lbs of passengers... not bad for a 125cc scooter!). Near the summit we thought to turn around and head back when [...]